A Plan for the Study of the Elm Tree in Primary Grades 



By Susan B. Sipe 



Teacher of Gardening in the J. Ormond Wilson Normal School, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The aim of this lesson is to encourage a feeling of ownership 

 in one school-yard or neighborhood tree; to teach the changes 

 that a living tree passes through in a year, to teach the value of 

 trees to the pupils and to other people. 



Work preceding the lesson upon which the teacher had to build 

 the new lesson : 



i. Gathering of leaves from day to day by the children for 

 October's party, with incidental talks on their colors and shapes. 



2 . By the study of a plant in the garden thay have learned that 

 the plant is held in the ground by its roots; that the stem holds 

 the leaves up to the sunlight ; that the leaves need the sunlight ; 

 and that there are flowers and seeds. - 



FALL LESSON 



As the leaves of different trees are brought in, and the elm leaf 

 is among them, the teacher should frequently say. "These are 



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